Guy's clearly need educating about 1) thyroxine overdose, 2) the (theoretical)
effect of dilution on FT4 3) The legal and practical implications of giving
such advice particularly for small labs. I tried in the distant past -
perhaps
you have a go!
Aubrey Blumsohn
>Guy's were phoned for a second time on day 3, and the consultant
>paediatrician was told to 'ask the lab to dilute the sample so that an
>accurate result for fT4 could be obtained'.
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